I also used to think it was stupid that Goldfinger explained the plan to the gangsters. But I think it makes sense. When Bond is captured, he says to Goldfinger: “I enjoyed your presentation.” And Goldfinger replies: “So did I.” Goldfinger is a huge narcissist and without a doubt enjoyed talking about his plan, although it made no sense to explain it to someone he intended to kill off. But he did it anyway because he loved himself and his genius plan so much.

M: 007, we've got some plot holes that we want you to fill. Roger: *raises eyebrow*

“Hip is a moron.” So glad you brought that back 😂😂😂

For the Goldfinger plot hole - I like to think he told them all as a final precaution - the gangsters aren't stupid, so although Goldfinger plans to kill them all he's still interested in hearing what they have to say beforehand in case he missed something whilst strategising his plan.

You Only Live Twice. A space Rocket inside a volcano. Have you ever seen a space rocket being launched? Everyone in the area would have been BBQ

Anja was surprised, because she couldn’t know that she’s sitting in the car she already stole the plans for. There wasn’t any clue for that, Major Boothroyd took Bond aside for telling him the gadgets.

Skyfalls plothole is similar to The Dark Knight and Jokers plan. It requires so much planning ahead that it`s just ridiculous.

I think I have some fairly reasonable explanations for a few of these: -Dr. No: We don't see Bond's entire journey through the ductwork between encountering the water and kicking through the metal grate, it is entirely reasonable that somewhere along the way he went past a downward-sloping branch of ductwork that would have diverted the water away, or he may even have found an upward-sloping branch or vertical connecting tube and taken it to get out of the water's path. -Goldfinger: Why does Goldfinger pointlessly & elaborately explain his plan to the gangsters right before killing them? The same reason Walter White in Breaking Bad tells Hank that Gale Boetticher's lab notes show no sign of creative reasoning or independent thinking but rather just seem to be rote copying of someone else's formulas, and so Gale is probably NOT the genius meth chemist "Heisenberg" that Hank has been after (and that Walt himself secretly is): sheer uncontrollable ego. Goldfinger just NEEDS to brag, to show off to *someone* what a criminal mastermind genius he is even if he then has to immediately kill them in order to assure the plan remains secret. And indeed, everything we've seen of Auric Goldfinger up to this point does seem to confirm that he has just this sort of massive, narcissistic ego. -You Only Live Twice: I can't pretend to explain most of the "logic" behind Bond's Asian disguise, but as to how he seems to spontaneously shake off his asian makeup & hair style and instantly re-grow a dense thicket of chest hair? Bond is JUST THAT DAMM MANLY! -OHMSS: It makes perfect sense that Blofeld didn't recognize Bond; If you recall, shortly before Blofeld encountered Bond in You Only Live Twice, Bond had been ingeniously disguised as an Asian fisherman. (Oh, wait....,) -Moonraker: Getting back to more serious explanations, one can easily speculate on financial motivations for Drax to steal his own shuttle rather than cancel the delivery at the last minute: If Drax simply canceled the order, not only would he have been out the considerable sum of money that had been due him from the sale of the shuttle itself, but there might well have been have been some kind of substantial penalty for cancelling the order at the very last second like that, it would almost certainly have constituted some kind of breech of contract. This way, not only does he get his shuttle back for free after having sold it, he probably also got some kind of hefty payout from insurance fraud as well. Tomorrow Never Dies: In 2019, during the big first public reveal of Tesla's upcoming Cybertruck design, Elon Musk attempted to demonstrate how indestructible even the vehicle's windows were by throwing a steal ball directly at the prototype's windows. Earlier in the day he & the truck's lead designer had rehearsed this moment by repeatedly throwing that same cannonball at two of the windows and it had harmlessly bounced off, leaving the window undamaged every time. But it turns out every one of those impacts was taking a toll on the glass's structural integrity, so that by the time Elon was onstage in front of a crowd ready to throw the ball for real the glass in both windows had quite literally reached its breaking point, and in his two attempts Musk managed to shatter the glass in both the windows. So yeah, I can easily imagine that the sledgehammer & whatnot during the BMW attempted break-in scene "softened up" the glass so that it was ready to finally shatter at the start of the backseat driving sequence. -The World Is Not Enough: You do realize you're talking about the cognitive functions of a man with a bullet imbedded deep inside his brain, right?

For me the most annoying plot hole in casino royale is why a supposedly massive plane reveal is happening at three in the morning in the midst of a crisis. Seriously who's awake at the time to watch a plane be revealed and why were the people revealing it completely oblivious to the sprinklers and fire alarms. Other than that perfect film

The Anja makes perfect sense. It’s one thing reading about the car, it’s another seeing it in practice

For TND, they switched ammunition and rifles. They had sub machine guns at first, which shoots hand gun calibre bullets, then they switched to actual rifles with armor piercing rounds. Still a minor plot hole but not as bad as you'd think.

The biggest plot hole is why the villain doesn't just shoot Bond when he gets captured in every film. They always look for "a cunning plan" giving 007 a chance to escape.

I love how the plot hole for Moonraker was just about the plausibility of needing the shuttle at the beginning, as opposed to... everything else!

For shawshank redemption, the movie literally shows that the poster was only attached to the wall at the top. Andy just lifted up the bottom and let gravity pull it back down.

In Licence to Kill (a movie I love as well) it's inesplicabile why the Hong Kong narcotics, an anglo-chinese police force, would use ninjas to stop Bond. I mean... do they not know that they're japanese? There's even a movie in this franchise, You only live twice, that explains what country they're supposed to represent. Otherwise a brilliant, underrated movie with an underrated Bond in Dalton.

The Casino Royale one is actually explained: MI6 needs LeChiffre to WANT to cut a deal with them. They don't want to "bring him in for interrogation", they want him to seek asylum and come willingly. To that end, putting him in an even worse financial situation is perfectly logical.

It's so hard to choose just one ridiculous moment in most 007 movies. One that got stuck in my head is Bond and Gustav fighting for sport and then all of a sudden trying to kill each other in a mansion full of people.

Great video! However in defense of the Tomorrow Never Dies "plot hole"...Bullet proof/armored glass does give after heavy sustained force. We see this in action in NTTD with the DB5 as well. I have no problem with the BMW's glass finally giving away with all those guys mercilessly shooting it.

wow, you pointed out so many things that i never realised, althogh i've considered the tarantula plot hole myself, i think that was just what they used because it's a huge spider that looks menacing and the audience at the time probably wouldn't know that it's not deadly

Why did the Moonraker shuttle have fuel in it? It was being transported and the fuel’s the heaviest part!

I think the biggest plot hole in No Time to Die is Bond just automatically assuming Madeleine betrayed him without first talking to her. I guess it could be explained that he still has a hard time trusting people, but if this is supposed to be the love of his life, I feel like he'd talk to her before abandoning her at the train station.

One that always bugged me about NTTD. Why does Bond's EMP watch destroy Primo's eye but not the earpiece in his ear literally just a few more centimetres from the eye.

So the invisible Aston Martin... I don't mind the tyre tracks so much; that could easily be explained as an oversight. The real problem is that Bond KNOWS the car is invisible, but still HIDES BEHIND IT.

Most plot hole can be plugged fairly easily. Anya was surprised because there are several versions of the Lotus and she had not realized that this was the version for which she stole the plans. Once she realized this was the submarine Lotus, she took control. No plot hole.

16:58 What happened is Le Chiffre is sheltered in Montenegro because the government won't extradite him for whatever reason (probably bribery) and british government can't enter Montenegro to arrest Le Chiffre. They could try to send Bond to kidnap Le Chiffre, but I guess they thought it would be more problematic than sending Bond to make him lose all of his money. If he lost all of his money he'd be in debt and he'd have to leave Montenegro anyway. They would have leverage and he'd make a deal with MI6 in exchange for protection.

Guy Haines is also the name of the main protagonist played by Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. Perhaps the QOS producers were really committed to that Easter egg joke.

My favorite is in You Only Live Twice: Bond tells Tanaka he’s never been to Japan, but in From Russia With Love he tells Tanya, “Once, when M and I were in Tokyo we had an interesting experience…”

Felt like the subway part of Silva's plan was intentional weather or not an agent would be chasing him. Serves as a great distraction for him to go after M- the police and emergency vehicles would all be focused there rather than the court. Regarding him knowing M would be there he's an expert hacker (shown in as much depth as Carver being a media mogul) and was probably aware of what was going on in her life.

How Grant could make his elaborate plan in From Russia With Love? Easy! Because Grant IS JUST THAT F***ING AWESOME! THAT'S WHY! SHUT UP! Ok, it is a plothole, but seriously; No henchman ever came close to being as naturally intimidating and downright terrifying as Grant. Damn he's a great villain.

One that just occurred to me while watching Dr No earlier today. Bond and Honey are locked in the cell in No's HQ, and then knocked out with drugged coffee. Why? They're not going anywhere.

In Goldeneye Ouromov and Trevelyn didn’t need Bond to think Trevelyn was dead. They needed MI6 to believe he was dead. If only Bond comes back or neither comes back MI6 is going to think Trevelyn is dead.

The invisible Aston from die another day also wouldn't work because of perspective. If 2 people look at the car from a different position, the car can't project an image that would blend in with both of there views

You can actually still ski in summer in Austria, on glaciers in Sölden (where the FIS World Cup traditionally opens every year) or Hintertux for instance. That being said, the one in TSWLM looks more like a winter landscape to me.

In Quantum of Solace, I love how he got pictures of their faces by taking pictures of the back of their heads. That’s a plot hole right there.

For Tomorrow Never Dies, it actually seems to be the grenades that break the windshield. Either way, the 9mm rounds from the submachine guns versus the 5.56mm rounds from the assault rifles is probably an explanation enough.

A great video, you identified some I wasn't aware of

At the very beginning, Titanic is shown. Jack not fitting on the door is not a plot hole. It is misunderstood. The reason Jack couldn't get on the door wasn't because there wasn't enough room, it was because the door couldn't support his and Rose's weight.

Andy had the poster attached at the top like a curtain - you can even see it in the film. Jack tried to get on the door, but it almost capsized so he realised that only one could get on - nothing to do with space. I can't believe the Internet still hasn't figured these out yet.

I believe that if Ian Fleming was alive he could explain why Bond had to bankrupt La Chiffe in Casio Royale. That was also the plot of the novel and other versions.

15:54 Jeroen went all in on that rant🤣

I don't know about Bond's chest hair, but I do believe that his face makeup & wig were peeled off when he & Kissy Suzuki jumped to the water in order to get away from the poison gas seeping through the cave.

You pointed out a lot of questionable plot choices that I had never thought of. I’m impressed! Maybe you should be the next “M.”

Awesome video. Solid Points. Thank you

Love your uploads. Good analysis!

I must say, sirrah, your voice modulation produces a comic effect which is both hilarious and governed. This is most true for me when you tore apart the invisibility feature of the Aston Martin Vanquish.

This is very detailed work, You didn't mentioned how Scaramanga got hold of a perfect likeness of bond, even though Bond is a super secret agent. Creg. I think The Bond Experience has been watching your videos. It's Craag, like The Hague. ;)

In Die another day, it could be explained that the henchman can see the tire tracks but when Bond's car is moving fast and far away, he has the heat camera as a visual aid and to see the shape of bonds car

You can’t see OHMSS as a stand-alone film because Tracy’s death referenced multiple times throughout the series

FYI: the titanic scene is actually physically sound. MythBusters proved that two bodies of their weights would actually cause it to sink. The only way to have it float would be the ingenious method of tying lifevests underneath the door.

This was the first of your videos I have seen. Very interesting and well presented. You just got a like and a sub!

Really nice video! I enjoy plot holes in general they offer good content for long discussions among fans

Great job Jeroen and great video. Not going to lie, some of these plot holes I did not know.

I love it in Austin Powers when Scotty, Seth Green says "Dad, why not just shoot him."

Very good vid man

There is another plot hole in "The Spy Who Loved Me" . Bond and Anya are traveling from Cairo to Stromberg's base in Sardinia and they are attacked by Jaws on a sleeper train! Where? Sardinia is an island, so they would have flown there. Sardinia has trains but it is only about 220 Km long. The train from Caligari where the main airport is to Porto Palao (where Q meets them with the Lotus) would not be an overnight sleeper train. Also - why does Q bring the Lotus by Ferry? Did he come from Corsica or mainland Italy? Why didn't they just fly the lotus to the same airport that Anya and Bond flew into?

Very well done video and these are some great plot holes. The tarantula in Dr No reminds of the Scorpion in Diamonds are Forever. Yeah the bite and sting would hurt, but nobody would just fall down dead. And the whole Blofeld being Bond's brother, just was terrible. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your brother.... He told me enough, he told me you killed him No, I am your brother!!!

Bond getting poisoned at the casino in CR is sort of plot hole for me. The rules stipulated that you could only leave during breaks. Bond bets, leaves, goes to the car, gets diagnosed online by MI6, dies, gets revived, changes tuxedo shirts and is back in time for the next hand....

In Octopussy the British Embassy shows soldiers checking guests at the front gates, but their military training does not anticipate staggering clowns with big shoes and balloons.

I've been watching since moonraker and I've never noticed these. Great video!

Drax had to steal the shuttle because the plot of Moonraker is just a rehash of the Spy Who Loved Me and the villian in that one stole submarines.

The moonraker one is great. The whole movie based around a plot hole.

One rejected song in every bond movie

5:40 In the German dubbed version of TMWTGG, Hip says something like: "I have to bring my nieces to safety first."

The TND entry is a combination of both stronger weapons during the chase and the fact that all ballistic armor does weaken with repeated shots until it eventually fails.

The fact that Bond killed Primo in the opening sequence, yet Primo is still alive to fight Bond later in the film is a huge plot hole in No Time to Die. The fact that M surmises that Verper had to make a deal to save Bond's life in Casino Royale when they still needed Bond alive to get the password.

Great video as always.

The most Dutch video… spotting plot holes

Unfortunately, the Goldeneye one is a biggie, even though it's one of my favourites in the series. It's just really hard to imagine how Trevelyan set that up and pulled it off, and that point is integral to the entire film.

I am go glad that Sir Roger Moore's confused face from Live And Let Die was used as a thumbnail.

The only reason was so that we all had to suffer through Jimmy Dean’s pronunciation of “Baha”😅. I hear that in my head all the time.

Another plot hole from Goldeneye: The fact that Natalya is unable to figure out the easiest clue in history of passwords. True, you technically can take many chairs with you, but she literally tries with "buns" and "arse", both of which you always take with you and have the wrong number of letters.

12:52 okay professional Texan here, the initial shots taken against the 750il, is with an HK MP5k, a submachine gun which uses the 9mm NATO bullet. This is a pistol caliber round, just like Bond’s Walther P99 uses. When he rounds the corner to escape, the guns used against him are M16A2 with M203 grenade launchers. We’re taking about a significant step up in penetrating power (4x) and explosive damage from the grenade launchers. Armor piercing ammo is commonly produced for the M16’s 5.56mm NATO. Notice, the steel of the car is unscathed, and the logically more sensitive glass is the only part to sustain damage.

Agree, license to kill is to me the most underrated of them all...Also I have the quantum of Solace game and it sets up Guy Haines even more only for it to go nowhere.

The Man with the Golden Gun one has never struck me as a plot hole, it seems completly realistic that in a high stress situation such a mistake could happen.

How did Andy keep the poster on the wall from inside? Well, as we saw in the movie, it was attached at the top and just draped over the hole.

I remember at the end of License to Kill I was shocked Felix was even alive! I had to ask, wasn't that the same guy who was eaten by a shark? I never thought about the Living Daylights plot hole but thought that manner of death in itself was ridiculous.

Anja - Bond suddenly driving car into the sea. There's not a single person on the face of the planet who wouldn't show the same level of panic. Then, as it turns into a submarine, it dawns on her: ohhhh this must be that car I saw the blueprints for... No plot hole here.

The biggest Plothole are the Craig-movies themselves. Trying desperately to make up continuity in order to satisfy a audience used to TV shows and Marvel movies. Funnily even Roger Moore Bond movies have more believable continuity without even trying.

Love the videos

The biggest plot hole in Goldeneye is that a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 keeps up with a 1994 Ferrari F355

The biggest plot hole in Skyfall is that the District Line train in central London that falls victim to the explosion is empty during rush hour.

Good one. Honestly, I'd only noticed the most obvious of these, and almost never when first watching the movie. The problem with mistakes and plot holes is that most of the films are entirely unrealistic, so you will always find a ton of issues if you overthink it. The most common plot hole in Bond, and for many action movies in fact, is why does the villain always give themselves away by either trying to kill Bond or killing someone else that alerts MI6 that something is up. I think Moonraker is one of the most egregious examples, since Bond is not visiting Drax because he thinks Drax stole his own shuttle, he's there to see if Drax has any idea who could have hijacked it. All Drax has to do is answer Bond's questions and send him on his way. Instead, he immediately goes down the kill Bond route, which then alerts Bond that Drax is the villain. You can probably find similar examples in most, if not all, Bond films.

A plot hole for the spy who loved me is how did they take a train to sardinia when Sardinia is an island.

For Goldeneye, I always found it too much of a coincidence that Bond happend to be in Monte Carlo where the tiger helecopter was stolen, ultimately leading him to 006 in Russia. Was he investigating Xenia onatopp already, or he happened to be in the right place at the right time?

I have an even better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death. That's basically every movie.

0:40 that pool looks chilly

In SkyFall, if Bond was dead for months and his stuff put in storage, then they would have most likely filled the empty 007 spot. What happened to the person who took the 007 spot?

In Die Another Day I always thought, why did they just send one missile to destroy Icarus?

Great video. As you say few movies are air tight and often different writers take on projects during filming so these things happen unfortunately. I think some are caused by deleted material [Quantum] or maybe un-filmed scenes [like Live and Let Die] but others are lazy writing. The 'Invisible car' burn was hilarious. Here are some random musings. FRWL: Knowing Kronsteen is a chess champion and planned everything out I could bye he had the escape planned and ready with heavies already in the area so could move it forward 24 hours. YOLT: Weirdly according to the reference book 'The Bond Files', the script states Bond isn't wearing his disguise at the end base so they went out of there way to cause this! View: yeah, that just feels like an extra fight scene was added late in the game and everything around it not being altered. The same goes for the Paris scene as Bond could have found about Zorin's event via Tibbet at the race track. I also think Bond should have been fighting Jenny Flex and Pan Ho here to give them something to do before there deaths in the mine! LTK: Maybe it's just me but I do think it's a bit of a stretch how much Sanchez trusts Bond to the point of killing his own men. Conveniently Dario isn't around for a good chuck of these scenes until he identifies Bond at the drug factory. Funny enough, the Arnie film 'Raw Deal' has a similar plot [with a hero taking down villains from the inside] but there our hero is exposed by a gangster doing a background check on him and the gangster is played by Robert Davi! TWINE: Additionally The Ski attack on Elektra seems forced given both her and Renard are revelled to be on the same side [and she's only saved from the snow by Bond's gadget]. Having a smaller assassination attempt would have probably made more sense to gain Bond's trust rather than this big action scene. Spectre: I Could buy Mr Hinx's and the guard were there to capture Bond/ensure he followed Blofeld's route. This is probably caused by Bautista not being available for the later bits of the film, hence why he's dispatched long before the Spectre Base and London scenes. NTTD: Bond doesn't 'give up' but instead has been shot is bleeding badly and struggling to walk at the end [and the hatch he emerges from is probably too far to escape at this point]. He's mortally wounded but goes out with a smile knowing the people he cares about are safe. As for the nanobots-I wish they had put in a scene either saying they were 'EMP' resistant or they released the toxins instantly [so there damage is done]to close this as it's established they have been developing the nanobots for a while before the film begins and are not short of carriers to test it on to show EMP didn't work. Allegedly this was caused by the nanobots apparently [even before Covid] replacing a virus during production.

For Skyfall , also why would Bond drive M all the way to to his remote house in Scotland, and not ask for backup? If the aim was to keep M alive , why not have her put in a M16 safehouse with dozens of agents to guard her..

Cool Video again Jereon ! Thumps up. For Sprectre it could be assumed that the Rolls Royce was there to pick up Hinx and when it was Bond and Madeleine they all played along. I'd like to think that Blofeld couldve kept the rooms arranged for them just in case, they would Show up, as a back up Plan so to speak. Same could be argued with the MI6 Building in the end. This would totally suit the Blofeld character. More plotholy I find how an entire Apartment block gets destroyed in the middle of MX City and no one cares and gets on with the Parade.

Great video! The goldeneye plot hole is the biggest!

A better plot hole for Goldfinger might be, 'why did Goldfinger allow that one guy to opt out, then have him driven all the way across town to be squished, only to have the cube -- the EVIDENCE of a major crime driven all the way back to his mansion? Does Goldy have a modern art sculpture he's working on, one car-brick at a time? Seems like a bullet in the back room would have achieved the same result.

Dufresne can plot & plan this intricate years long escape, but he can't figure out how to adhere a poster back onto a wall? C'mon, we're talking Andy here!

OHMSS cannot exist in the same continuity as YOLT and DAF. Both of those movies are inconsistent with OHMSS. After Thunderball, it should be OHMSS and then LALD. An alterate timeline would be Thunderball-YOLT-DAF, but then that wouldn't work with any later references to Tracy.

Maybe Dr. Julius No made a special poison for his tarantula that'll make its bite deadly to Bond, kind of like how Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed plants in order to make them poisonous to predators. Also, I like to think that the reason why Felix Leiter is cheerful at the end of *"Licence To Kill"* was the fact that Bond was successful in avenging his ex-CIA buddy and his wife.

Thanks man, Great video as usual! however some of these would not be "plot holes" more like contrivences or continuity errors. Some answers just for the sake of playing devil's advocate here: Dr No: Whether that water is a trap or travels through there for some reason, you as Dr No would have installed a way to drain that water out to avoid flooding the facilities everytime. FRWL: I guess the plan was moved ahead one day when the news of the bombing of the embassy were known. I guess Red Grant was like Oh shit it was today, and made a phone call before rushing to catch the orient express. Goldfinger: I guess he had already build the Fort knox model for his planning phase, and/or since the presentation was an excuse to have them all together and killed at the same time, the model was built because it would be suspicious if you were called to a presentation and there was nothing on display. I would consider a bigger plot hole Pussy's unexplained motivations and turn to the good side. The Living daylights: The movie is great, Timothy Dalton is the best Bond. Don't really have an argument here, just that Nekros is a pretty efficient Red Grant clone and if some bad guy could do it, he was. Also that death scene is great as it is. License to kill: Let Feliz be happy...he is talking to his friend who is alive, well and back on duty after going rogue for him, he is very thankful to Bond. More importantly the people who raped and killed his wife, and mutilated him, all did die horrible horrible deaths, I would be jumping in my one feet lol. QoS: I don't think that is a plot hole, it doesn't contradict the story and Bond couldn't follow them all by himself, I guess the idea was to show the scale of Quantum, rather than them being active leads. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more plot holes on that mess of a movie, but don't remember it enough and don't feel like rewatching it hehe. NTTD: I don't know, Mary Poppins maybe? XD People hire other people to take care of their children and we don't know Madeline schedule, maybe she just travels to London to see Blofeld once a month or every two weeks, and she leaves the kid with someone during those short leaves or maybe the girl is just that independent, after all she is Bonds daughter and perhaps can take care of herself lol. Also, I thought Nomi doesn't know Madeleine has a daughter not that M16 doesn't know.

I think the laptop-plugging thing in Skyfall is the most egregious plot-hole in the whole series. Not a single IT guy on this planet would have plugged a laptop known to have belonged to a dangerous hacker into a network. Even a novice would get his pink slip the moment he does something stupid like that. What Q would have done was a). x-ray the laptop for explosives & booby traps. b). extracted the hard drive from the laptop. c). plug the harddrive into a specially hardened UNIX computer that was not connected to any networks and with all auto-run or auto-open features disabled. d). the contents of the drive analyzed with ASCII-text ONLY tools. I know, the plot must happen, but this was beyond outrageous. This was an insult to the IT profession.

Moonraker: dr goodhead turns off moonrakers radar jammer. US military fortunately has a space shuttle on standby full of astrosoldiers with chest mounted lasers that can launch and attack the base in a couple of minutes. now that's what i call being prepared.

I would explain the Goldeneye plothole this way: they faked his death for all potential survivors, both Bond and the Russian Soldiers. Even when the hole factory blew up, supposedly killing everyone in it, I think it's fair to have a plan just in case anyone survives. Ourumov betrayed the Russians by becoming an ally of Alec. That's why he also doesn't care that his men get killed. The problem is that he probably knew that they would blow up the factory, so how did he and Alec escape? Especially as Ourumov and his men followed Bond outside, so how was he able to escape with Alec without anyone noticing? And why did Alec become scared, but not Ourumov? That's a bit more confusing for me. Maybe they took different paths, but even then: how did they manage to escape this station within 3 minutes? Also confusing how he shot his own guy a moment before he "shot" Alec. The most logical explanation would be that he used real bullets but didn't shoot Alec, but into the ground instead. As all of his men were focused on Bond, this could be plausible.